...scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verba, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too,...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witehes, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions,...

...thrashings, I made an excellent scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my...country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witehes, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions,...

...by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I wasa criticin substantives, verbs, and participles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to...country, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions]...

...time 1 was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In iny infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old...country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spuukies, kelpies, elf caudles, dead- lights, wxaiths, apparitions,...

...thrashings, I made an excellent scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my...remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition, fihe had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and ,sonfs, concerning devils,...

...was a eritie in substantives, verbs, and partieles, [n iny infant and boyish days, toe, I owed mueh to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignoranee, eredulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest eolleetion in the eountry of...

...Davidson, an elderly relative of Mrs. Burns, who used occasionally to come on visits, and who had " the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,...

...Betty Davidson by name, who was a dependent on his father. "She had," wrote the poet in later days, "the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches', warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,...

...family resided a certain old woman — Jenny Wilson by name, as research has discovered — who had th« largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, etc., and that to the recital of these Robert gave attentive ear, unconsciously laying up...

...his mother's, " remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition." " She had," he says, " I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf - candles, dead - lights, wraiths, apparitions,...